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Cant think of the word.. help?

  • 05-01-2016 10:00PM
    #1
    Deranged96
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭


    It begins with an E.
    It means to carry a kind of moral message, in relation to fables, short stories, sayings etc.


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  • #2
    mordeith
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,125 ✭✭✭mordeith


    Deranged96 wrote: »
    It begins with an E.
    It means to carry a kind of moral message, in relation to fables, short stories, sayings etc.

    All that springs to mind is ethics


  • #3
    Eyespy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 413 ✭✭Eyespy


    Deranged96 wrote: »
    It begins with an E.
    It means to carry a kind of moral message, in relation to fables, short stories, sayings etc.

    Hi, the only two I can think of offhand is exemplum and allegory. I realise that the latter begins with an "A" though. Hopefully one of them is the word you're looking for.


  • #4
    wat24
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 150 ✭✭wat24


    Edify?


  • #5
    Deranged96
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 588 ✭✭✭Deranged96


    Aphorism.
    That's the word I was going for.
    Doesn't begin with an E.
    Does not fit entirely with the definition I gave above.
    I presented ye with an impossible task, I am sorry.

    Thanks be to God it hit me though because I was about to start going through E in the dictionary.


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